Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/ML

DigitalOcean • Seattle, WA

4d • Remote

About The Position

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/MLDo the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a high‐caliber community building the simplest, most scalable cloud on the market. If you think big, move fast, and thrive in a bold, high‐growth environment, you’ll fit right in. We win together—learning, having fun, and delivering real impact for the dreamers and builders we serve.We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build end‐to‐end features that make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.The AI Application Platform team builds AI and agentic applications across modalities—LLMs, images, audio, and video—on top of DigitalOcean’s high‐performance inference engine. Our mission is to keep the latest state‐of‐the‐art models available at peak performance. We’re moving fast to build the next generation of AI applications and platform workflows at DigitalOcean.

Requirements

• Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
• Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, tracing, insights, language modeling, computer vision)
• Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
• 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
• Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
• Design of cloud ready systems and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
• Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
• Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale AI application services such as ADK, agentic tools
• Maintain and develop APIs, MCPs and SDKs
• Collaborate on design and UX
• Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
• Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
• Partner with SRE/DevOps on reliability, observability, incident response, and deployment workflows
• Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions

Benefits

• We innovate with purpose.
• We prioritize career development.
• We care about your well-being.
• We reward our employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed